Yards: "There are many issues in our country's water conservancy construction, especially some irrational planning in the early stages, which have led to ecological and environmental disasters, thereby causing economic losses, such as the 1876 Ankaleena Reservoir breach incident, resulting in hundreds of casualties, destroying some farmland and villages."
The Ankaleena Reservoir breach incident was clearly not as understated as Yards described, with actual casualties reaching thousands, but in East Africa, statistical data did not count Black laborers' casualties.
The Ankaleena Reservoir was a large reservoir planned in the early days of East Africa, and technically it was rather feasible. The main issue was during construction when a miscalculation of weather led to floods, and at that time the Ankaleena Reservoir was not yet complete, with workers' residences too close to the riverbank, which led to subsequent problems.
